Near Engineering

by Madhu Therani

Chief Technology Officer

Welcome to the Tech blog at Near.co. With our ongoing mission of building out the world’s largest location intelligence platform, the tech team at Near is working on a number of bleeding-edge technologies in distributed systems, large-scale data processing pipelines, data storage, and data sciences. The close-knit, world-class team works on a number of interesting areas building in-house tech and adapting open-source systems. Key areas and associated topics of interest for us include:

Distributed Systems

Maintaining and updating state across our sharded environment as we receive concurrent events at scale (Cloud infrastructures)

Model development - inferring people attributes, place attributes and more

Handling Geo-centric data in all its guises

Mobile Apps & Systems

Building Apps and SDKs that use “mobile devices” as sensors (Android, IOS)

Integrating different wearables and other IOT components

Product Development & Deployment

The data harnessed by the Near platform is utilized in a variety of products and applications. Tasks in product development include:

Analytics visualizations

UI design and development

Scaling devops across our platform and products

Realworld product testing and management

We are excited by the potential of our platform and the kinds of applications we can power in the future, especially as a techie. If you are interested in working with us, please follow our tech blog and also look up our careers page or reach out to us at tech@near.co.